Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory

History

Growing up in a military family and serving in the Navy for 20 years offered a contrast of influences, places and experiences; coming home I developed the practice of going within. When discovering and teaching myself stained glass in 2004, I found a quiet meditative peace and light in the contrasting cold, smooth, impartial glass. Never fully fitting into the rigid environment I’d been immersed within for over thirty years of my life, I drifted into non-traditional methods and materials and found they expressed a more truthful inner sense of self.

Coping through Art

It gives me space to get out of my head and forget everything that is happening in life.